Advice please for my daughter

gilly41

Hi
My daughter is 22 and lives away from home with her boyfriend. She has rung me tonight to say that she has won, what she thought was a competition.She has been filling things in online and said that a company(not sure if i can post the name) had phoned her this evening and said she had won a make over down in London and she could bring along 5 friends! She said that all she had had to do was pay £99 over the phone with her credit card and when she turned up she would get her £99 back!!!I said OMG if u have won a competition you dont pay money up front!!!She then said that she had felt bullied on the phone to agree to it.
Now, she really is a clever girl --- she has a first class degree in Maths!!!!!! but where things like this are concerned she has no common sense. I told her she should never give out her credit card details to anyone let alone the three digit number on the back:eek: ---I told her to cancel her credit card and put a stop on the money.She rang Nat West and cancelled the card but they have told her the £99 has gone through and she will have to ring a different department tomorrow morning(this was at 7 tonight)She has just rang me to ask if she thinks she will get her £99 back as it has gone through! I said I dont honestly know and I would ask on here.
Can anyone advise please? Thanks
x

save-a-lot

Hi

My sister had a similar experience years ago where she had aparantly won a makeover and professional photos. It turned out that yes there was a makeover and the photos but the real reason was to sell her a larger portfolio of photos worth over £700 - which in the end she paid.

The win only allows for a limited size and number of photographs, I think they hard sell once you are in the situation of their control.